Named Entity Results, Charybdis (California, United States)

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Browsing named entities in Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.). You can also browse the
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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 12, line 5 (search)

gether in the
hold. In one thing only did I disobey Circe's strict
instructions - I put on my armor. Then seizing two strong spears I
took my stand on the ship's bows, for it was there that I
expected first to see the monster of the rock, who was to do my men
so much harm; but I could not make her out anywhere, though I
strained my eyes with looking the gloomy rock all over and
over.
"Then we entered the Straits in
great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other
dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water. As she vomited it up,
it was like the water in a cauldron when it is boiling over upon a
great fire, and the spray reached the top of the rocks on either
side. When she began to suck again, we could see the water all inside
whirling round and round, and it made a deafening sound as it broke
against the rocks. We could see the bottom of the whirlpool all black
with sand and mud, and the men were at their wit's ends for
fear. While we were taken up with this,

Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 12, line 6 (search)

"When we had passed the Wandering
rocks, with Scylla and terrible Charybdis, we reached the noble
island of the sun-god, where were the goodly cattle and sheep
belonging to the sun Hyperion. While still at sea in my ship I could
bear the cattle lowing as they came home to the yards, and the sheep
bleating. Then I remembered what the blind Theban seer
[mantis] Teiresias had told me, and how carefully
Aeaean Circe had warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god.
So being much troubled I said to the men, ‘My men, I know you
are hard pressed, but listen while I tell you the prophecy that
Teiresias made me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe warned me to shun
the island of the blessed sun-god, for it was here, she said, that
our worst danger would lie. Head the ship, therefore, away from the
island.’
"The men were in despair at this,
and Eurylokhos at once gave me an insolent answer.
‘Odysseus,’ said he, ‘you are cruel; you are very
strong yourself and never get worn out; you seem